Popular counters to attack lock?

[jigglejuice]

I am playing a cobalion + vilaplume deck wedensday at cities. For exact deck specs you can look in the deck help forum. Lets say i get a fully powered cobalion and vilaplume set up. what are your strategies to beat me? I am interested in the opponent's mindset just as much as my own!

 

[cabd]

I'm gonna give you something easy to KO, and then OHKO you with Zone. Or manually retreat, since i'm using eel/zone, and I get the energy back.

 

[jigglejuice]

The one hit KO attacker. That is going to be a tough one for me to deal with while I'm trainer locked. I guess the best I can hope for if I encounter magnazone is to get an eviolite and couple special metals attached to require 4 energies to be discarded for the KO. In that sense I could have a decent amount of time for the set up of another attacker. Cobalion can't do anything to survive a blue flare so if I see that monster coming I have to get a Beartic going.

 

[honchvire]

Same way any deck would deal with a Goth/Reun deck or a RossDeck. Go for OHKOs, outspeed, or find ways to disrupt by dragging up your Reuniclus/Vileplume with something like SludgeDrag(Muk UD) or Carnivine/Bellsprout's first attack.

If I'm playing Durant, I'd just keep milling.

If I'm playing Chandelure, I'd just drop 6 damage counters a turn and not worry about attacking.

If I'm playing Machamp, I can just Fighting Tag to break that lock.

If I'm playing Politoed(lol) then I can Leap Frog out of the lock.

Or just leave something with Cheap retreat active to do some damage, then retreat to something that has the OHKO.